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2 The Roots Of My Ambition “If theres one thing I cant stand, Russell, its a quitter.” 罗素，假如有一件事我不能容忍的话，那就是做轻易放弃的人。 My mother,dead now to this world but still roaring free in my mind, wakes me some mornings before day-break. “If theres one thing I cant stand, Russell, its a quitter.” 虽然她已离天人世，我母亲却依旧在我的脑子里大声嚷嚷，有时天还未破晓她就催我起床，罗素，假如有一件事情我不能容忍的话，那就是轻易放弃的人。 I have heard her say that all my life. Now, Lying in bed, coming awake in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave new day. 我一辈子都在听她讲这句话。而今躺在床上，在黑暗中睁开睡眼，我就能感觉到她和那个一无是处，游手好闲的人对歭的那股凶劲儿，那个人就在我心中，他宁可缩回被窝继续睡觉，她不愿意抓住新的美好的一天。 Silenty, I protest: I am not a child anymore. I have made something of myself. I am entitled to sleep late. 我在心里默默地抗议：我不再是个孩子，我已经做出了自己的成绩，有权晚点起床。 “Russell, youve got no more gumption than a bump on a log.” 罗素，你完全没有进取心了，只想当个无所事事的懒汉。 She has hounded me with these battle cries since I was a boy in short pants. 自从我还是穿着短裤整天乱跑的小男孩起她就用这种战场上的喊叫来鞭策我。 “Make something of yourself!” 你一定得弄出个名堂来！ “Dont be a quitter!” 绝不要轻易放弃的人！ “Have a little ambiton, Buddy.” 伙伴，得有点儿抱负吧 The civilized man of the world within me scoffs at materialism and strives after success. He has read the philosophers and social critics. He thinks it is vulgar and unworthy to spend ones life pursuing money, power, fame, and…… 在我心目中这个世界上真的文明人嘲笑物质主义者和追名逐利的人。这种人饱读哲学大师和社会批评家的著作，他认为花费整个生命去追求金钱、权力、名誉是粗俗而不值的…… “Sometimes you act like youre not worth the powder and shot it would take to blow you up with.” 母亲还对我说：“有时你的行业显得自己还不如能置你于死地的那点火药或一粒子弹值钱。 Life had been hard for my mother ever since her father died, leaving nothing but debts, The family house was lost, the children scattered. My mothers mother, fatally ill with tubercular infection, fell into a suicide depression and was institutionalized. My mother, who had just started college, had to quit and look for work.。 自从外公死后母亲一直过着艰辛的生活，除了一大堆债务外公啥也没有留下。家里的房子成了别人的。孩子们四散各处。我那染上夺命结核病的外婆患了自杀抑郁症被送入医院。刚上